Glo Says Let's Talk Local, Vancouver

In today’s episode of ‘Glo Says Let's Talk Local’ podcast - Season 5 - What ART thou? Where ART thou? (A weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Arts Podcast) host Gloria Chong and her co-host Kristin Lim talk to guest - Adrian Sinclair (Director of Engagement and Co-founder of the Vancouver Mural Festival). Adrian shares everything about Vancouver Mural Festival including how it all started, the goals and how it supports Vancouver's many artists.

Episode Highlights

• 2:28 – Gloria asks Adrian, how it all started. She further asks, “Do you have to call everything a mural because you're a Co-founder of the Mural Festival?”
• 3:52 – Adrian says that the festival is really about creating a much more open, accessible and a public art event.
• 4:44 - Adrian highlights that their background was doing events with transformation projects; they do large scale events for social & community benefit-based organizations.
• 8:41 – A lot of the money that came in early for the Mural Fest was through engineering and not through public art, states Adrian.
• 10:00 - They spent a year working like a lot more than full time to get the first year off the ground, says Adrian.
• 11:23 – Drew was both a Convener and practicing artist. He created events for their artists to show work. 
• 14:14 – Kristin inquires, now that the Mural Festival is fairly established if there is an application process or how does that whole art selection process work.
• 16:06 – Their mission is to create visibility for communities that did not have the chance to participate.
• 18:55 – Gloria states that they are providing all the pillars that an artist needs.
• 23:45 – Artists are amazing at creating story and mural is about accessing a public that didn't pay to be there and didn't decide to be there.
• 27:23 – We tried to honour lots of Graffiti Artists in the first year, says Adrian.

Key Points

1. Adrian says that their goal is to develop curatorial as well as artistic capacity in Vancouver, so they can measure their success on how many curators will be given either their first or biggest opportunity that they've gotten.
2. It's been amazing to watch once artists have murals-up how much work they get.
3. The actual reason why they're doing all this work is to basically create a society or to influence everyone as a society that deeply values art and culture. 

Show Quotes

• “We have to like hustle for every dollar to pay ourselves and do the actual work” Adrian Sinclair  
• “We've always heard the statistic like most artists’ per capita, and all this sort of stuff is true.” Adrian Sinclair
• “Everyone gets paid right from the beginning and we really pride ourselves”. Adrian Sinclair
• “We have a ton of artists who are almost annoyed at us how much work they get now” Adrian Sinclair
• “You've devoted a lot to art and the support of art and the future of art.” – Gloria Chong

Find Us: 

• Glo Says Let’s Talk Local Podcast: AppleSpotify
• Kristin Lim: Instagram
• Vancouver Mural Festival: Website

In today’s episode of ‘Glo Says Let's Talk Local’ podcast - Season 5 - What ART thou? Where ART thou? (A weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Arts Podcast) host Gloria Chong and her co-host Kristin Lim discuss the East Side Culture Crawl, a perfect example of a very local event. It's an annual event where Professional Artists participate in the East Side Cultural Crawl and open-up their studios for the public. It's spread over four days and this year it is extended over two weekends.

Episode Highlights

• 7:00 - Gloria says Randy Steifel is an amazing and a talented Wood Maker. ‘Renegade Wood Works’ offers Laser Cutting, CAD Design, Wood Carving Signs Fabrication, etc.
• 9:00 – Kristin thinks having the opportunity to visit artists in their studio is fantastic. She really feels it’s for everybody going through the culture crawl.
• 11:20 - The ‘Culture Crawl’ has expanded beyond Parker Street Studios, there's so many other studio buildings/ artists who work out of their homes, and they change year-to-year.
• 19:23 – “Some of the artists Kristin enjoys seeing are Fiona Ackerman, she is an established artist and she shows in galleries across Canada. She also has a few murals around the city.
• 22:06 – Kristin mentions that another artist she always enjoy visiting is Carla Tak. She's just a really fascinating artist.
• 24:15 – Another artist at Franklin Street Studios is Kate Metten; she makes things like mugs and plates and functional things for your home.
• 26:12 – Gloria enquires that location wise, can you do all that one afternoon or do you need to go there a couple of times?
• 28:14 - The Wilder Snail is always really kind of lovely during the Culture Crawl, says Kristin.
• 30:21 - The Mergatroid has a lot of ceramics and worth checking out too.

Three Key Points

1. Kristin thinks that what's super interesting to see during the East Side Culture Crawl is how these professional artists work. Besides, what's great about the Culture Crawl it's a time where you can discover artists, meet them, talk to them about their work and see their work either by their work on the spot or see something in their studio that you like.
2. Besides artists and their friends, the East Side Culture Crawl event is organized for the general public. If you live in Vancouver, artists are so important to the community, they contribute so much to the community. Kristin feels like there's often a bit of mystery.  To be a professional artist takes a lot of dedication and hard work.
3. Kristin talks about the many places to see at the Culture Crawl and discusses her strategy or what she does at the event. She suggests that if you like something at the event then just buy it.

Tweetable Quotes

• “I can't imagine opening-up my workspace to the public.” – Gloria Chong
• “I really think there's something for everybody in the East Side Culture Crawl event.” - Kristin Lim

Resources/ Links:

• Glo Says Lets Talk Local Podcast:AppleSpotify
• Kristin Lim: Instagram

In today’s episode of ‘Glo Says Let's Talk Local’ podcast - Season 5 - What ART thou? Where ART thou? (A weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Arts Podcast) host Gloria Chong brings listeners to Chinatown today. Gloria discusses and explores along with co-host Kristen about all the art that we can see and enjoy in this neighbourhood Chinatown.  Gloria also shares whom she will be interviewing in the upcoming episodes.

Episode Highlights

• 02.50: - Gloria asks Kristen a little bit about any offer in Chinatown galleries, big installations, some special exhibition or what they should see.
• 07:00: - The host & the guest both talk about the size of these ‘Art & Media Galleries’ in Chinatown, Centre A, Canton Sardine
• 08:45: - Kristen states that there are several Artist Run Galleries located across Lower Mainland like ‘The Western Front’, ‘Grunt Gallery’, etc.
• 10:50: - Kristen mentions that besides the Artist Run Galleries is the Rennie Museum.
• 12:50: - “We touched on this when we were talking before, ‘Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden’, which is a garden, but it also has contemporary art things  
• 15:06: - Gloria says, “It's not just an ordinary garden that we would think of as a beautiful garden with lots of beautiful colours & lots of different patterns and different types and blooming at different times.”
• 17:00: - Kristen also mentions "A Seat at the Table"  at the  ‘Chinese Canadian Museum’ and ‘Museum of Vancouver’ (old Planetarium)
• 20:30: - She says that in recent years there have been a whole slew of new businesses, eateries, coffee shops opening-up a whole bunch of vegan restaurants.
• 22:40: - Kristen says that there are a few food joints/ eateries she has wanted to try including ‘Thank you pizza’ and ‘Honeybee’.
• 24:40: - Gloria states that she thinks it's time to spend the day down Chinatown and check it out.

Key Point

1. She says that when you go to Chinatown, there are all these things you can see in terms of Art but of course, people also go to Chinatown for food! 

Hosts Quotes:

Centre A is the only Public Art Gallery in Canada dedicated to contemporary Asian Art and Asian Diasporic Art – Gloria Chong

Bob Rennie is  a very established Art Collector, very serious Collector, and he collects artists from sort of when they're emerging and throughout their entire career – Kristen Lim

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In today’s episode of ‘Glo Says Let's Talk Local’ podcast - Season 5 - What ART thou? Where ART thou? (A weekly Business, Entrepreneur and Arts Podcast) host Gloria Chong and her co- host Kristin Lim, discuss about public art installations curated in Greater Vancouver. Kristin highlights what they are meant for and also talk about some of them. They encourage others to check them out too.

There are lots of other things to do in North Vancouver like hike, bike and explore all our local tourist attractions such as the Capilano Suspension Bridge, Salmon Hatchery and Grouse Mountain, but sometimes you just want to explore indoors,  so join us for a few options -

Episode Highlights

• 00.55 – Gloria asks Kristin, “What do you think of when someone suggests North Vancouver to you?”
• 03:10 – Kristin and Gloria say there is so much to do in North Vancouver including  there are so many new sorts of restaurants & coffee shops....little nice Shipyard area at Lower Lonsdale, there's some fantastic breweries if you like beer and there’s Polygon Art Gallery.
• 05:00: - Gloria reveals that she and Kristin met at the Polygon Gallery once and it’s a lovely space. There was a great gift shop at the bottom featuring lots of local artisans and crafters.
• 07:10: Kristin gives details about a dentist’s named Trylowsky and his art collection by  prominent Canadian artists at the Griffen Art Projects
• 10:00 – She reveals that at the ‘Polygon Art Gallery’ they show lots of fantastic exhibitions and  recently featuring  Jenna Claxton, and many others
• 12:10 – Gloria enquires, “Is there an official Museum in North Vancouver too like the ‘Vancouver Art Gallery’ do all the cities have these?”
• 14:10 – Kristin gives information about an installation by a Canadian Chinese Artist KEN LUM at the ‘Maple Wood Flats’, a conservation area, called ‘From Shangri-La-to-Shangri-La’ in 2010, and it was gifted to the city of North Vancouver in 2012.
• 16:16 – They both talk about ‘House of Funk’, a brewing company which specializes in coffee and beer. They do several breweries including using lots of fruits.

Key Points

1. Kristin's discussions include the Polygon Art Gallery, Griffen Art Projects, House of Funk, Gordon Smith Foundation's Gallery, Maple Wood Flats

Links:

• Glo Says Lets Talk Local Podcast:AppleSpotify
• Kristin Lim: Instagram

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@the_smith_foundation
@cityofnorthvancouver

Season 5 What ART thou, Where ART thou? continues with the Vancouver Biennale and the incredible art installations they have curated for Greater Vancouverites and beyond.  

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Welcome to Season 5, called "What ART thou, Where ART thou? "  My co-host Kristin Lim and I discuss  Art Umbrella's long standing Splash Art Auction  & Gala and ultimately the financial support it provides to students who want to study art or dance there.   We also introduce some creative local talents and the art they have contributed to this auction. 

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